Sami al-Hinnawi

Sami al-Hinnawi (1898-31 October 1950) was a Colonel of the Syrian Army who was one of the leaders of the 1949 Syrian coup d'etat.

Biography
Sami al-Hinnawi was born in 1898 in Aleppo, Ottoman Syria. He served in the Ottoman Army and the French Army before the independence of Syria, and he joined the Syrian Social Nationalist Party alongside Adib Shishakli, and in 1949 he led the SSNP in a coup against President Husni al-Za'im and Prime Minister Muhsin al-Barazi. He joined Shishakli's ruling military junta, but on 31 October 1950 he was assassinated in Beirut, Lebanon by Muhsin al-Barazi's cousin in revenge.